TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charles,Tami
TI  - Like Vanessa
SN  - 9781580897778
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Watertown, MA
PB  - Charlesbridge
KW  - Williams, Vanessa
KW  - African American girls
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Newark
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Beauty contests
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Family problems
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Family life
KW  - Urban schools
KW  - Self-confidence
KW  - Nineteen eighties
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Schools
KW  - Newark (N.J.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter
ER  -